Shackling device for street-cars



(No Model.)

W. SARGENT.

SHAGKLING DEVICE FOR STREET CARS. No. 373,909. 01 .29, 188'7.

WITNESS E5:

N, PUERS, Pholo'mhnghgflw Washington. D. Q

I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WESLEY W. SARGENT, OF FITOHBURG, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SAMUEL W. SARGENT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHACKLING DEVICE FOR STREET-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,909, dated November 29, 1887. Application filed June 13, 1887. Serial No. 241,!33. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WESLEY W. SARGENT, of Fitchlourg, in the county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and-useful Improvement in Shackling Devices for Horse-Oars, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and [0 use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of a horse-car provided with my improvement, a portion of the car being represented as removed and the pole broken off; Fig. 2, an end elevation of the same with the pole removed; Fig. 3, a horizontal section taken on line 00 0c in Fig. 2, the bracket and dasher being shown in top plan and the dasher represented as broken off; Fig. 4, a side elevation of a portion of the bracket and shacklingpin enlarged; Fig. 5, a front elevation of the same; and Fig. 6,a top plan view of the same enlarged, the shackling-pin being shown in horizontal section taken on line as a;

in Fig. 5.

Like letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in the drawings.

My improvement relates more especially to means for securing or shackling the pole of a horse-car to the body; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts,as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a simpler and more effective device of this character than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation.

In the'drawings, A represents the body of the car, B the dasher,!) the pole, and E the platform. The body A and pole O are of the ordinary form and construction, the pole being provided with the usual eye and crutch irons, mz. The dasher B is provided centrally at its upper edge with an outwardly projecting horizontally-arranged arm or bracket, D, and the platform E with ordinary draw-bars, H,

having holes in the usual manner for receiving the shackling-pin. The shackling-pin K consists of a long iron rod having its lower end, 12, made in the form of an ordinary shackling-pin and providedwitha shoulder, d, to prevent the pin from falling through the eyes of the draw-bars H. The upper end of the pin is provided with a knot or handle, 9, and below said handle, on the body of the pin, is a short vertically-arranged flange or spline, i. The body of the pin passes through a hole, f, 63 formed in the bracket D, said hole being provided with a vertical slot, t, at one side (see Fig. 6) to allow the passage of the spline i.

In the use of my improvement,when it is desired to shackle the pole O to the car, the 65 irons me of the pole are inserted between the draw-bars H in the usual manner. The driver then turns the pin K around until the spline i is over the slot 15 in the bracket D, when the pin will fall and its lower end, I), pass through the holes in the draw -bars H and iron m, thereby securing the pole O to said bars, the pin then assuming the position shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1.

To release or unshackle the pole the pin K is raised until the lower end of said pin is withdrawn from the irons on the pole and the spline i is above the bracket D, when by turning'said pin so that the spline does not register with the slot t the pin will remain suspended and the pole be released in a manner which will be readily obvious without a more explicit description. By having the pin K within easy reach of the driver, as described,

I obviate the necessity of compelling the driver to leave the car when changing horses, or of v reaching the coupling-pin by leaning over the dasher, as is ordinarily the custom.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is- In a device of the character described, the dasher B, having the horizontally disposed bracket D, provided with the holef and slot t, the platform E, provided with draw bars H, and the pin K, disposed in holes in said 5 bracket and draw-bars and provided with the shoulder d and vertical spline z, in combination with the pole 0, having the'irons m2, substantially as described.

\VESLEY W. SARGENT.

Witnesses:

CHARLES F. BAKER, HARRIS O. HARTWELL. 

